NDSU Campus Classes Resume After Bomb Threat

FARGO, N.D. (AP Sept 14, 2012) – North Dakota State University has lifted its evacuation order.

The university says it reopened campus at 1 p.m. and classes resumed at 2 p.m.

The university ordered all students and employees to leave campus Friday morning after it received a bomb threat.

NDSU President, Dean Bresciani says students and workers were alerted by email and phone messages, with a CodeRed Alert.

The evacuation order called for people to leave all NDSU properties by 10:15 a.m.

The university cleared its main and downtown campuses following the threat, along with all of its agricultural facilities.

The evacuation caused heavy traffic in the area, as students and others scrambled to get off school property.

During the evacuation period, traffic was rerouted around the two campuses.

A perimeter was established, and students were considered safe outside that area.

More than 14,000 students are enrolled at NDSU.

The evacuation order at NDSU came about the same time as one at The University of Texas at Austin, where officials also say they received a bomb threat.

FBI spokesman Kyle Loven says the agency is trying to determine if the two threats were related.

As reported with updates earlier, Friday….

Law Enforcement has given the “all clear,” following an NDSU campus-wide evacuation, as a bomb threat was phone in mid-morning on Friday.

Classes and theNDSU Campuses wiil reopen at 2-p.m., on Friday.

The FBi has joined the local invesigation, into the bomb threat.

No bomb was found on campus.

Reported earlier…….

FARGO, N.D. (AP Sept 14, 2012) – The president of North Dakota State University says a campus evacuation is complete.

NDSU ordered all employees and students to leave campus Friday after receiving a bomb threat.
President Dean Bresciani (brush-SHAW’-nee) says the main campus was evacuated, along with the school’s downtown campus and its agricultural facilities.

Searches are being made of academic buildings first, followed by resident halls.

Bresciani says the search process is going well, and as planned.

The telephone threat was site specific, but officials would not elaborate.

The only people on campus early Friday afternoon are those involved in the

searches.

Traffic is being rerouted around the two campuses.

A perimeter has been established, and students are considered safe outside that area.

He says it’s difficult to evacuate 20,000 people immediately, but most of the evacuation happened within a matter of minutes.

Bresciani says students and workers were alerted by email and phone messages, with a CodeRed Alert.

The evacuation order called for people to leave all NDSU properties by 10:15 a.m.

The evacuation caused heavy traffic in the area, as students and others scrambled to get off school property.

Fargo’s Hector International airport is open.

It’s suggested that those going to the airport use I-29 and approach the airport from the west.

The University of Texas at Austin also ordered an evacuation
after receiving a bomb threat Friday.

It is not known if the two threats are related.
More than 14,000 students are enrolled at NDSU.

University of Texas director of communications Rhonda Weldon
says the university received a call about 8:35 a.m. from a man
claiming to be with al-Qaida.

The man said he’d placed bombs all over the campus that would go off in 90 minutes.
Wheldon says all buildings were evacuated at 9:50 a.m. as a
precaution.